Black powder has just 3 components: potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur in the ratio 75:15:10. These are integrated finely into each other.
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=Black Powder:==75 parts Potassium Nitrate ( KNO3 or saltpeter/saltpetre, or nitre/niter). 10 parts Sulphur/sulphur (S) 15 parts Charcoal (C)==Generally, around the world in the 1800s, Black Powder came to be standardized at 15/2/3 or 15/3/2 of KNO/S/C, both to the same effect.=
The principal parts of "throw" are throw, threw, thrown.
The principal parts of "go" are: go, went, gone.
Chili powder is amixture not a compound; the principal ingredient is capsaicin.
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Black powder absorbs moisture from the atmosphere
Manganese dioxide (MnO2) is a black powder.
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Black powder is much weaker than smokeless powder. Smokeless powder, for this reason, once invented(much after black powder), replaced black powder in guns. However, black powder is still used in fireworks because the extreme explosive power of smokeless powder would prove too dangerous in fireworks.
Black powder, or a black powder substitute such as Pyrodex. Smokeless powder (modern gun powder) should not be used in a traditional muzzle loading firearm.
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